THE GUIDE FESTIVALS 2016


Let’s go fly a kite...


19th edition of Dieppe International Kite Festival, the biggest kite festival in the world!


From 10th to 18th September 2016, Dieppe colours its seafront with thousand of kites by welcoming 300 specialists from over 40 different nations!


All kite-flying disciplines will be shown including extreme acrobatic kite flying and creative kite flying.


Opening ceremony on Saturday 10th September 2016 and parade on Sunday 11th September 2016


Night flight show on Saturday 17th September at 10pm The World Puppet Theatre Festival is held in Charleville-Mézières


June 21 is World Music Day, when free musical events are staged in around 120 countries all over the planet. France – whose former minister of culture Jack Lang established the celebration in Paris in 1982 – typically embraces the whole idea with considerable gusto, staging all sorts of free concerts and street music across all genres, and all over France. www.fetedelamusique.culture.fr


Jazz in Marciac July 29-August 15, 2016


For more information please contact infos@dieppe-cerf-volant.org or visit...


www.dieppe-cerf-volant.com


Postal address: Les Tourelles – Boulevard de Verdun BP 142 – 76204 Dieppe Cedex


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Marciac, in the Gers department of southwestern France, has been staging a jazz festival since 1978 and in the past has hosted such luminaries as Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz and Herbie Hancock. There are three festival venues, all in the centre of this music-loving town: a 6,000-capacity marquee, a 500-seat concert hall, and a stage in front of the Hôtel de Ville. This year, the acts are as eclectic as ever, with singer/ pianist Jamie Cullum, pianist Ahmad Jamal, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, fusion band Snarky Puppy, and plenty of Latin flavours in between. www.jazzinmarciac.com


Wissembourg International Music Festival Festival International de Musique de Wissembourg


August 17-September 4, 2016 Every year, Wissembourg, a town in northern Alsace, invites many of the world’s best classical musicians to take part in this festival dedicated mainly to piano pieces and chamber music. Every night in the town’s Église Saint-Jean a different concert is performed. Featured composers this year include Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Ravel, Britten, Debussy, Stravinsky, Bartok, Haydn, Prokofiev, Brahms, Vivaldi, Liszt and Rachmaninov. www.wissembourg-festival.com


International Music Festival Festival International de Musique August 7-20, 2016 France’s Belle Époque was a period of history from the late 1800s up until World War I. This music festival, staged at various venues across the Brittany town of Dinard, celebrates the Belle Époque with classical concerts linked to that period. This year’s features chorists, the Berlin Philharmonic String Quartet, piano soloists, a piano


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All photos ©Patrice Roberge


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